Re: [patch] Performance Counters for Linux, v3

From: Chris Friesen
Date: Fri Dec 12 2008 - 14:46:28 EST


stephane eranian wrote:

What happens in the following test case:

- 2-way system (cpu0, cpu1)

- on cpu0, two processes P1, P2, each self-monitoring and counting event E1.
Event E1 can only be measured on counter C1.

- on cpu1, there is a cpu-wide session, monitoring event E1, thus using C1

- the scheduler decides to migrate P1 onto CPU1. You now have a
conflict on C1.

How is this managed?

Prevent the load balancer from moving P1 onto cpu1?

Chris
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